Bill Madden writes about the talks that went on about Manny Ramirez. He mentioned how the Yankees were “ready to go at least two years and an option for Manny” if they didn’t land Tex. Is it still possible that Manny could still land in pinstripes?

Phil: Yeah, best day ever in your whole life. And you can’t do it when your kids were born. That’s too easy.

Mitch: “I got one. I’m seven years old, and my dad takes me to Yankee Stadium. My first game. We’re going in this long dark tunnel underneath the stands, and I’m holding his hand, and we come up out of the tunnel into the light. It was huge..how green the grass was...brown dirt, and that great green copper roof, remember?

And we had a black and white TV, so this was the first game I ever saw in color. Sat through the whole game next to my dad, taught me how to keep score, Mickey hit one out.”